Announcing: Copy a Visual as an Image

Introducing the ability to copy a visual as an image to your clipboard!Today, we’re excited to announceyou can easily share a captured image of a dashboard tile or a report visual with just one click! Here is what a copied visual would look like in an email –

You can now copy a static image of the visual in the Service along with the visual’s metadata including:

A link back into the Power BI dashboard or report

The title of the report or dashboard the content was copied from

If the image contains confidential information

The time stamp of when the data was last updated

The filters applied to the visual

Note: This is different from “Copy Visual” in Desktop, which allows you to copy and paste visuals between report pages while authoring. More information can be found here.

Here is a walkthrough on how you can interact with Copy Visual as an Image!

Copy from a Dashboard Tile

Navigate to the dashboard you want to copy from

Click on the “More options” menu on the top right corner of a dashboard tile

I have a data sensitivity label applied to my report. Will this label be applied to a copied visual?

Sensitivity labels will not be applied to copied visuals; however, users will be notified that they are taking a screenshot from a sensitive report before copying.

When the content is pasted, there will be information in the metadata letting others know the visual contains confidential data.

Why is my visual not pasting correctly?

There are limitations around Copy Visual including:

Limited support for custom visual formatting such as:

Visuals with applied themes and colors

Tile scaling when pasting

Custom visuals with animations

Copying constraints:

Cannot redirect users to content with Odata filters and sticky states such as personal bookmarks

Pinned live pages are not supported

Applications with limited support for pasting HTML-formatted content from the clipboard may not render everything that was copied from the visual

What’s next?

Head on over to Power BI and try it out – share data insights with colleagues, create beautiful presentations, and use this feature to your heart’s content!

This feature will be available to all tenants by the end of this week. Let us know what you think by commenting on this post. If you have suggestions for future enhancements, add an idea on Power BI Ideas page and upvote the items you want to see 😊